Declared Spotless: Invited to Communion
A quiet invitation to draw near to Christ
A pastoral reflection on shame, our acceptance in Christ, and the gentle invitation to make room for fellowship with Him.
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Clear searchIf Any Man Thirst
Jesus and the fountain of living water
Christ's cry at the Feast of Tabernacles reveals the thirst of the human soul, the simplicity of coming to Him, and the life of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Read article →Not as the World Giveth
The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
Christ's promise in John 14 contrasts the world's conditional peace with the peace He secured, gives through His Spirit, and sustains amid trouble.
Read article →The Hope of the Resurrection
Not escape from the body, but its redemption
Christian hope reaches beyond a disembodied afterlife to the bodily resurrection, the renewal of creation, and life with the risen Christ.
Read article →What Did They Reject?
The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…rk makes that response possible and God receives the glory for salvation. The emphasis is pastoral as well as theological. We should pray for the Spirit to work and urge people to believe. We should not tell them to wait until they can identify a prior inward event. Christ’s prom…
Read article →Have Evangelicals Become Neo-Gnostics?
History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…esult is not freedom under Scripture but an algorithmically assembled magisterium with no pastoral responsibility. Knowledge separates from love “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth” (1 Corinthians 8:1). Paul does not praise ignorance. He exposes knowledge treated as posse…
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